Bibi Bakare-Yusuf co-founded the publishing house Cassava Republic.

Nnedi Okorafor and Cassava Republic co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf are among the speakers for the TED Global 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania. The 38-strong list also includes the lexicographer Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo, whose Okowaokwu Igbo Umuaka : Igbo Dictionary for Children became an Amazon bestseller a day after publication, alongside a formidable crop of thinkers in such fields as technology, business and creative arts.

Much-honoured science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor.

A winner of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award, Nnedi Okorafor, who was Brittle Paper‘s 2015 Literary Person of the Year, currently has her novel, Who Fears Death, being adapted to TV by HBO, to be produced by Game of Thrones author, George R.R. Martin. A week ago, Entertainment Weekly named her on a power list of top sci-fi and fantasy authors.

See the full TED Global 2017 speakers HERE.